-What a busy week! Monday began with our homeschool group Valentine’s Day party. The kids were so excited to exchange Valentines. We made Valentine’s Day M&M blondies to share with the group. The kids had so much fun playing at Clarke Park and picnicking. Lots of goodies and candy, but lots of good times too
-On Tuesday we went to a Valentines themed story time at the library. We had a pancake breakfast in honor of Mardi Gras and I tried to eat all of the candy in our house!
-Wednesday was Ash Wednesday so we attended Mass in the morning at St. Luke’s. A and S behaved well, but M decided she had enough after communion and had to be taken outside during an intense rain storm. Always an adventure! We spent a lot of time talking about Lent and the meaning of Ash Wednesday. A decided he wanted to give up chocolate, although I told him he wasn’t old enough to have to participate. I decided to give up desserts (AHHHH!) and getting lunch out for the kids during the school week.
-Thursday was St. Valentine’s Day. We went grocery shopping and had a special steak dinner. For breakfast I made heart shaped cinnamon rolls with pink icing, strawberry milkshakes, and pin scrambled eggs. We had a light school day with only Valentine activities. Aidan did some coloring sheets and a candy heart bar graph.
-Friday was a nice, slow day after a busy week. We tried to finish up the school work we didn’t get to earlier in the week. M did some more dot worksheets with a Valentine theme. She really seems to like them and after we talked about the letter Vv she did a great job finding them on the paper. We also tried a pattern worksheet, but I am not sure how much she really understood it. She did like gluing the squares in the correct spot on the paper. A and T went to the Philadelphia Union game Friday night, and the girls and I had a great shrimp pasta dinner at my parents’ home.